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luchtschip 14 april 2022 11:43

A team from Ukrainian SSO blew up the bridge as the Russian military column from the 201st Military Base was crossing it while headed to Izyum.

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luchtschip 14 april 2022 12:51

BBC :

We filmed the missile cruiser Moskva in 2019. The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been “seriously damaged” by a fire that caused its ammunition to explode.

video van de Moskva uit 2019 : 0:46 minuut

twitter.com/GlasnostGone/status/15145...

Glasnost Gone :

Knock on effects of Ukraine having hit & seriously damaged one of Russia's flag ships can't be underestimated.

Putin can hide tank losses etc. from the Russian people. but not the loss of a large warship.

This will also heap more psychological pressure on Russia's already shaky forces

luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:14

Anti war concert in Moskou

Daar komt de politie op af

Police raid an antiwar concert at a Moscow cultural center, disrupting a performance by pianist Alexei Lubimov. But he still managed to finish his last tune.

video 1ste tweet 0:33 minuut

Here’s from another angle

video 2de tweet 1:10 minuut

twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1514...

commentaar Andes Aslaund :

This is just like Stalin: having prominent artists arrested on stage in order to make everybody scared. Putin is no Brezhnev. He has quickly descended to Stalin & Hitler

twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1514...

Onduidelijk is of de Pianist gearresteerd is
er zijn berichten dat er een bommelding was en men de zaal moest ontruimen uit voorzorg
Dit is een geijkte tactiek van de Russen
Bij een evenement, dat de Russische leiding onwelgevallig is, komt men met een nep verhaal over een bommelding om het evenement stil te zetten

luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:18

Nutteloze en doelloze verspilling van ammunitie door het Russische leger

een carrousel in een park bombarderen

Video of Gorky Park in #Kharkiv being bombarded by #RussianArmy. Probably #Ukrainian nationalists were using one of these carousels as a shield.

Right, @Mfa_Russia, @RusBotWien?

( mfa îs ministry of foreign affairs Russia )

video 0:16 minuut

twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/15145...

luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:22

Ministry of Defence, Ukraine

update

6am ( 5``;00 uur ) :

Russia still building up land/air forces on Ukraine's eastern border.

Missile/bomb strikes continue in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

Belarus saying Ukraine may attack.

Russia still attacking in the east & Ukraine repelled ( afgeslagen ) a full scale attack in Mariupol.

uitgebreide update

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luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:25

Ukraine reports, yesterday in the city of Mariupol, Russia's forces tried to storm Ukrainian positions, but the attack was repelled ( afgeslagen ).

Recent pics from the city show the apocalyptic destruction & misery Russia's inflicted in the city.

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luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:33

Demonstratie van bewoners in het door de Russen bezette Kherson ( zuiden van Oekraine havenplaats aan de Zwarte Zee )

In Russia|n-occupied Kherson, south Ukraine, local residents again hold a #protest against the ongoing Russian occupation.

Amazing courage and defiance!

video 0:35 minuut

twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1514...

luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:35

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine :

These writings on a wall and a door in the basement in Yahidne, near #Chernihiv, shows a story of #Ukrainians being trapped there for weeks. They counted the days, listed the names of people who died during the #Russians occupation.

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Succes 14 april 2022 13:36

Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s botched war with Ukraine

A “Stalinist” mass purge of Russian secret intelligence is under way after more than 100 agents were removed from their jobs and the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison.

In a sign of President Putin’s fury over the failures of the invasion, about 150 Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers have been dismissed, including some who have been arrested.

All of those ousted were employees of the Fifth Service, a division set up in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union with the aim of keeping them within Russia’s orbit.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-purg...

DeZwarteRidder 14 april 2022 13:37

13:04
Ukraine military claims Moskva started sinking

A short while ago we heard from the Russian military, who say the Moskva is still afloat.

Now the Ukrainian military claims the Russian flagship started sinking after it was hit with Neptune missiles.

Posting on its Facebook page, the southern military command says the vessel suffered significant damage and a fire started after the strike.

Russian rescue ships were then hampered by ammunition exploding on board as well as bad weather that "overturned the cruiser and it began to sink", it adds.

luchtschip 14 april 2022 13:38

Effect van de sancties op de Russische samenleving

BBC

From today’s Russian papers you can see some of the consequences of sanctions: “a shortage of new cars”, a shortage of shipping containers, “price rises inevitable” on medicines.

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Succes 14 april 2022 13:43

What images of Russian trucks say about its military's struggles in Ukraine

(CNN)Think about modern warfare and it's likely images of soldiers, tanks and missiles will spring to mind. But arguably more important than any of these is something on which they all rely: the humble truck. Armies need trucks to transport their soldiers to the front lines, to supply those tanks with shells and to deliver those missiles. In short, any army that neglects its trucks does so at its peril.
Yet that appears to be exactly the problem Russia's military is facing during its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to experts analyzing battlefield images as its forces withdraw from areas near Kyiv to focus on the Donbas.

Photographs of damaged Russian trucks, they say, show tell-tale signs of Moscow's logistical struggles and suggest its efforts are being undermined by its reliance on conscripts, widespread corruption and use of civilian vehicles -- not to mention the huge distances involved in resupplying its forces, or Ukraine's own highly-motivated, tactically-adept resistance.

"Everything that an army needs to do its thing comes from a truck," says Trent Telenko, a former quality control auditor for the United States' Defense Contract Management Agency, who is among those parsing the images for clues as to how the war is going.

"The weapon isn't the tank, it's the shell the tank fires. That shell travels by a truck," Telenko points out. Food, fuel, medical supplies and even the soldiers themselves -- the presence of all of these rest on logistical supply lines heavily reliant on trucks, he says. And he has reason to believe there's a problem with those supply lines.

Canary in the coal mine
Telenko describes one recent photo of tire damage on a multimillion-dollar mobile missile truck, a Pantsir S1, as the canary in the coal mine for Russia's logistical efforts.
As such an expensive piece of equipment, he would have expected its maintenance to be first-rate. Yet its tires were crumbling just a few weeks into the war -- what Telenko refers to as "a failure mode."

If trucks are not moved frequently the rubber in their tires becomes brittle and the tire walls vulnerable to cracks and tears. Telenko says the problem is common when tires are run with low inflation to cope with the sort of muddy conditions that Russian forces are facing in the Ukrainian spring.

For Telenko, who for more than a decade specialized in maintenance problems in the US military's truck fleet, the condition of the Pantsir S1 is a revealing mistake.
"If you're not doing (preventive maintenance) for something so important, then it's very clear the entire truck fleet was treated similarly," he says.

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Another 'bad sign'
Phillips O'Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, sees another "bad sign" for Russian truck logistics: its use of civilian trucks to replace military ones lost in battle.
"Civilian trucks are not made to military grade. They're not made to carry the loads, they're not made to carry the specific pieces of equipment," and in many cases cannot even operate off roads, O'Brien says.

The rigors of war are already trying enough for the sturdiest military grade truck, let alone a civilian one.

"A single mile in peacetime, if you drive it in wartime is like 10 or 20 miles (16 to 32 km) because you are pushing the truck hard with huge payloads," O'Brien says.
Switching between the two introduces a maintenance problem, as spare parts may not be compatible. And, as O'Brien points out, "You don't want to have to get a new truck every time an old one breaks down."

Compounding the problem, according to Alex Vershinin, a former US Army officer who served four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that when vehicles do break down Russia has limited resources to recover them.

The Russian army's battalion tactical groups -- those at the spearhead of its advances into Ukraine -- normally have only one light and one heavy recovery vehicle, even in units featuring dozens of vehicles, Vershinin wrote last month for the US Military Academy's Modern War Institute. This means combat vehicles sometimes need to be diverted to towing duties and sometimes broken down "vehicles need to be towed up to a hundred miles," wrote Vershinin.
O'Brien suggests Russia has neglected its trucks largely because they are not glitzy enough for a military keen to show off its cutting edge weapons systems.

In recent years, Putin has boasted about Russia's hypersonic missiles like the Zircon and Kinzhal, stealth fighter jets like the Su-57, and its modern fleet of 11 ballistic missile submarines.
"Often glamorous dictator militaries are good at the showy weapons, they buy the fancy aircraft and the fancy tanks, but they don't actually buy the less glamorous stuff," O'Brien says.

Conscription and corruption

At the root of Russia's logistical problems, experts say, are two things that plague its military: conscription and corruption.

About 25% of the Russian military's million troops are conscripts, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies -- though many experts believe that figure may be misleading, suspecting some of the non-conscript troops are either coerced or tricked into enlisting.

Russia's conscripts tend to serve one-year stints, occupy the lower ranks, and fill many of the positions in the logistics chain, including vehicle maintenance.
"You can't really learn anything in a year about maintaining military systems," Telenko says.

"I don't see how the Russians can maintain their current positions, let alone make any offensive moves with their current truck fleet," he says.

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All these problems only exacerbate the problems facing Moscow in what is already an uphill struggle for its forces given the distances involved.
Trucks can usually operate up to 90 miles (145 kilometers) from their supply depot, Telenko points out.

But Ukraine is about the size of Texas, almost 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) wide and 350 miles (563 kilometers) long.
That means Russia would need to open numerous supply depots inside Ukraine for its troops to advance farther into Ukraine's interior.

"Trucks are the backbone of any modern mechanized military force, and if you don't have them you walk."

And if you walk, you don't win.

Lees verder:
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luchtschip 14 april 2022 14:24

Moraal daalt sterk bij de Russisch troepen
Ze komen er nu achter dat een toegezegde extra vergoeding voor hun Oekraine missie niet betaald wordt

‘There Is Such Fuckery Going on Here’: Russian Soldiers ‘Revolting’ as They Get Stiffed on Ukraine Payouts

twitter.com/pmakela1/status/151455904...

Russian soldiers in Ukraine are said to be “dumping their stuff” and leaving after the military leadership stiffed them on special pay they were promised.

That’s according to several intercepted phone calls released by Ukrainian authorities Wednesday, all of which paint the same picture of a “total clusterfuck” among Russian troops, as one soldier put it.

In audio released by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, a man purported to be a Russian soldier is told by a woman back home to “limp” so that he’ll be rotated out.

He says military leadership has promised “enormous cash payments,” but goes on to complain that “they say things here and then don’t fulfill a damn thing.”

“Everyone is outraged, entire battalions are starting revolts. The commanders promise us that they are giving us their word,” he said.

www.thedailybeast.com/russian-soldier...

luchtschip 14 april 2022 14:54

Oekraine pakt Putin voortvarend bij zijn kladden

Oleksel Reznikov, Minister van Defensie van Oekraïense :

Met with Karim KhanQC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ICC, The Hague

We are unanimous that the investigation of russian war crimes must result in prosecution and sentencing.

Once a lawyer - always a lawyer. Our joint efforts will bring justice.

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twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/15...

>>shelling civilian buildings and infrastructure is a war crime.
>> Abductions ( ontvoeringen ) are war crimes.

theo1 14 april 2022 15:00

quote:
DeZwarteRidder schreef op 14 april 2022 10:49:
[...]

Je bent een grapjas: dat schip is al gezonken of gaat zinken.

Toch niet echt: hij schijnt nog te drijven en zelfs nog op eigen kracht te kunnen varen. Maar deze schuit gaat voorlopig hoe dan ook niks meer doen.

edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukra...

DeZwarteRidder 14 april 2022 15:13

Ukraine ‘SINKS’ Russian Black Sea flagship as missile strike engulfs cruiser in flames

youtu.be/xk6xHyjMvdU

DeZwarteRidder 14 april 2022 15:15

quote:
theo1 schreef op 14 april 2022 15:00:
[...]
Toch niet echt: hij schijnt nog te drijven en zelfs nog op eigen kracht te kunnen varen. Maar deze schuit gaat voorlopig hoe dan ook niks meer doen.

Volgens de Russen is alle bemanning van boord gehaald, dus 'varen op eigen kracht' lijkt mij een beetje moeilijk.

luchtschip 14 april 2022 15:17

quote:
luchtschip schreef op 14 april 2022 14:24:
Moraal daalt sterk bij de Russisch troepen
Ze komen er nu achter dat een toegezegde extra vergoeding voor hun Oekraine missie niet betaald wordt

‘There Is Such Fuckery Going on Here’: Russian Soldiers ‘Revolting’ as They Get Stiffed on Ukraine Payouts

twitter.com/pmakela1/status/151455904...

Russian soldiers in Ukraine are said to be “dumping their stuff” and leaving after the military leadership stiffed them on special pay they were promised.

That’s according to several intercepted phone calls released by Ukrainian authorities Wednesday, all of which paint the same picture of a “total clusterfuck” among Russian troops, as one soldier put it.

In audio released by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, a man purported to be a Russian soldier is told by a woman back home to “limp” so that he’ll be rotated out.

He says military leadership has promised “enormous cash payments,” but goes on to complain that “they say things here and then don’t fulfill a damn thing.”

“Everyone is outraged, entire battalions are starting revolts. The commanders promise us that they are giving us their word,” he said.

www.thedailybeast.com/russian-soldier...

Voor de admministratie heeft het Russische leger al stempels gemaakt met verklaring dat de soldaat weigerde te vechten in Oekraine

They have stamps for that allready
Translation:
Prone to betrayal, lies and deceit
He refused to participate in a special military operation on the territory of the LPR [Luhansk People's Republic], DPR [Donetsk People's Republic] and Ukraine.

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zie 2de tweet

twitter.com/poliitikasse/status/15145...

DeZwarteRidder 14 april 2022 15:18

16 hr 50 min ago
Ukraine says defenders of Mariupol consolidate, while Russia claims to take prisoners

From CNN's Tim Lister, Maria Kostenko in Chernivtsi and Nathan Hodge in Lviv

Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has said that after a "risky maneuver" the last remaining defenders of the besieged port city of Mariupol have been able to join forces.

Arestovych said Wednesday that "in Mariupol, as a result of a risky maneuver, units of the 36th Independent Marine Brigade broke through to [join] the Azov regiment."

Both units have been involved in a last-ditch attempt to resist a Russian offensive against the city that has lasted well over a month.

"This is what happens when officers do not lose their heads, but firmly maintain command and control of the troops," Arestovych said.

CNN cannot independently confirm the details of the operation. Members of the Marine unit posted a video statement on Tuesday saying they would hold on "until the end," despite being surrounded by Russian forces and running low on supplies.

On his Facebook account, Arestovych said that the Azov regiment had "received substantial reinforcements ... the 36th brigade avoided defeat and received additional serious opportunities, in fact, gained a second chance."

Arestovych claimed that "the defenders of the city, now together, seriously strengthened their defense area."

The defenders of the city, where some 100,000 civilians remain trapped amid widespread devastation, have been fighting to hold parts of the port and Azovstal, a giant steel factory that lies on Mariupol's eastern outskirts.

The Russian military claimed in a statement Wednesday that 1,026 Ukrainian Marines -- including 162 officers and 47 women servicemembers -- had surrendered in the vicinity of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, a claim that could not be verified.

Russia has focused an intense propaganda effort around the battle for Mariupol, claiming to have seized key positions in the city, even as Ukrainian forces have continued to hold out.

Some background: Independent analysis of the situation in Mariupol on Sunday published by the Institute for the Study of War assessed that the defense of Mariupol had reached a critical stage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said "tens of thousands" have died in Mariupol, a figure that cannot be independently verified.

luchtschip 14 april 2022 15:24

Jaro Nad, Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic :

This is not expelling of Russian diplomats, this is a Special Anti-Spy Operation.

So far 449 Russian spies sent back home from 30 countries since the beginning of war in Ukraine to enjoy enormous prosperity in Russia

overzicht :

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twitter.com/JaroNad/status/1514557488...

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